Kaitlin Ryan opens with win at Big Red Invitational

Bronxville places seven in top 10 to take team title

11:09 PM,
Sep. 7, 2013

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The 130 girls took their places along the far end of a soccer field under the bright blue sky behind Somers High. The gun sounded in the comfortable mid-60s air at 10 a.m. to start the race and Kaitlin Ryan's cross country season of high hopes.

When Saturday's 5K run through the woods and the meadows was done on an adjacent field, Bronxville's freshman on the rise had crossed first under the rainbow of racing flags suspended across the top of two ladders. Ryan ran 19 minutes, 49.9 seconds, beating Marykate O'Meara of Nanuet by about 10 seconds in the Division 2 girls event at the 13th annual Big Red ...